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Poetry recitations in classic/prog rock

Posted on 10/4/22 at 3:37 pm
Posted by Lou Pai
Member since Dec 2014
29473 posts
Posted on 10/4/22 at 3:37 pm
Not sure how many fans of Moody Blues are on here, but the poetry they intersperse in their compositions is pretty great, especially in the context of the albums they are on. Was wondering if there are any other examples out there.

In the Beginning

Late Lament
Posted by Richard Grayson
Bestbank
Member since Sep 2022
2149 posts
Posted on 10/4/22 at 3:53 pm to
The Doors - Horse Latitudes

GnR - Civil War
This post was edited on 10/4/22 at 4:21 pm
Posted by midlothianlsu
Midlothian, Texas
Member since Oct 2009
1777 posts
Posted on 10/4/22 at 4:15 pm to
Vanilla Fudge album The Beat Goes On has a lot of stuff like that including excerpts of historical speeches. Requires getting used to this one.
Posted by Hoodie
Donaldsonville, LA
Member since Dec 2019
3603 posts
Posted on 10/4/22 at 4:23 pm to
I’d say the passage read in Metallica’s “To Live is to Die” qualifies. It was written by Cliff Burton.
Posted by TheTideMustRoll
Birmingham, AL
Member since Dec 2009
10253 posts
Posted on 10/4/22 at 4:42 pm to
Hawkwind - "The Wizard Blew His Horn"

Make sure you drop plenty of acid first, though, or it won't make any sense.

I suppose you could also argue that "Spirit of the Age" is recited poetry.
Posted by FightinTigersDammit
Louisiana North
Member since Mar 2006
46425 posts
Posted on 10/4/22 at 6:22 pm to
Guy Clark's "The Last Gunfighter Ballads" sounds like a poem with a spare musical accompaniment
Posted by Flair Chops
to the west, my soul is bound
Member since Nov 2010
35647 posts
Posted on 10/5/22 at 7:18 pm to
I always like 'alas poor yorick, I knew him well' in the preludes/ rarities version of werewolves of London, though that's more historical literature instead of poetry
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
154253 posts
Posted on 10/5/22 at 7:32 pm to
In ancient times,
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people, the Druids
No one knows who they were or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock, of Stonehenge
Stonehenge! Where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge! Where a man's a man
And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan
Hey!
Stonehenge! 'Tis a magic place
Where the moon doth rise with a dragon's face
Stonehenge! Where the virgins lie
And the prayers of devils fill the midnight sky
And you my love, won't you take my hand?
We'll go back in time to that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow
I will take you there, I will show you how
Oh!
And oh how they danced
The little children of Stonehenge
Beneath the haunted moon
For fear that daybreak might come too soon
And where are they now?
The little people of Stonehenge
And what would they say to us?
If we were here, tonight
Posted by C W
Member since Mar 2020
2686 posts
Posted on 10/6/22 at 7:37 pm to
This entire album is good

Jim Morrison

An American Prayer
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
28373 posts
Posted on 10/6/22 at 9:29 pm to
Iron Maiden- Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Posted by Hook Echo
Central Gulf Coast
Member since Feb 2016
527 posts
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:37 pm to
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
38521 posts
Posted on 10/6/22 at 11:58 pm to
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Posted by MountainTiger
The foot of Mt. Belzoni
Member since Dec 2008
14912 posts
Posted on 10/9/22 at 4:29 pm to
William Blake's Jerusalem by ELP.
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